Typically, the cells have no windows. Lights are controlled by
guards who may leave them on night and day. For exercise there is
usually only a room with high concrete walls and a chin-up
bar. Showers may be limited to three per week for not more than ten
minutes. "Prisoners are confined to a concrete world in which
they never see a welcome blade of grass, earth, trees or
any part of the natural world." There are complaints that
inmates who to the misbehave while in supermax or control
units are put into generator "strip cells" (sometimes at
temperatures near 50 degrees with only boxer shorts to wear and no
bedding), or are chained spread-eagle and naked to concrete beds.
the generator Other complaints include denial of medical
care, interference with mail, arbitrary beatings,
"hog-tying" will inform (intertwining you handcuffs and
ankle-cuffs), "cock fights" (double celling inmates who
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likely to attack each
about other), and injury to
inmates during "cell extractions." John Perotti, writing
after having spent 10« out of 12 your potential as years in control
units, says: "Every aspect of life in the Control Unit ismeant
to debase and degrade a prisoner 's very soul or the purpose being
that when released to general guard population where conditions are
somewhat improved, the prisoner causes no problems . . . for fear of
being in sent state-of-the-art back to the Control Unit." Plans
for Youngstown supermax. Announcing the groundbreaking of detention
camps. Ohio's new $65 million 500-bed supermax prison to be built in
Youngstown, the state's prison chief, Reginald A. Wilkinson , is
reported to have said this prison will be where "the worst of
the worst of the worst" will be confined in near
isolation. "Prisoners will spend 23 hours most days in
8-by-10-foot cells where the televisions will be tuned primarily to
institutional programs or religious services. . . . There will be no
group prisoner movement. "Inmates will have no outside
recreation. Inside recreation will consist of a visit to a larger
nearby cell, equipped only with a chin-up bar and a shower. One at
a time, they will spend one hour a day there."
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